Workmen's advocate., 1887-04-23
DOWN WITH THEM!
THE CAPITALIST POODLE
 PARTIES MUST GO.
The Labor Party Has Come to Stay. The "Democratic" Party Never Was the Friend of Labor.
 Office. Seekers Need
 Not Apply.

The rapid growth of the United Labor party as factor in politics IS causing no small amount of com ment and anxiety among the poli- tclans of the two parties--the "dem ocratic" and "repubican." Among their leaders are many shrewd and far-seeing men who discern danger long before it is actually realized. They appreciate fully the fact that there ls q spirit of independence among workingmen which has in the past lain dormant, occasionally flashing up for a moment and as rapidly dying out, but which has recently awakened in earnest and will not be subdued by force or ca joled into submission by false prom lses and empty pl attitudes.
 The only hope for the politician is that there may be leaders in the new party who will prove plable, and through the blandishments of office be induced to disparage the move ment or betray the cause of labor. It must be admitted that in the ranks of labor are to be found men who aim to secure leadership that they may barter the party for the emoluments of office even as so- called labor leaders have in the past. But we live in an age of progress, and workingmen are daily becoming more conversant with the treachery and deceit of the old party leaders, and although slow to learn in the school of politics, their education when once acquired is like the solid rock.
 Workingmen have known in the past what they know now-that the democratic" party never was Il friend of labor, and only made a pretense of espousing the cause of labor when it desired the votes of workingmen to assist it into power. They know that the democratic" party, when it held sway in this na- tion, degraded labor and held hu- man beings in bondage to be whip ped, sold and bartered as cattle, and that the leaders of the party charac- terized workingmen as "mudsills. ." They know, too. that all the con- spiracy laws on the statute books of the different States were enacted by democratic" legislatures.
 They know that, outside of ap- pointing few professional work lngmen" to office, the present cxecu tive officer of the State has exercised no influence to elevate the condition of the working masses.
 The revolution has commenced, and the tread of q great army, de- handing d voice in the government and equal justice, is heard moving toward every official position from President down to police justice. There is no danger that this new in- dependent political movement will stop in it's course, but it IS necessary that the more vitality be thrown into the ranks 80 that the relief de- sired may be accomplished in two years instead of a decade.
 There is no place Tn either of the two old parties where the working masses can find justice. They have never affiliated with the "republi- can party, never asked anything of it, and have received nothing. They know it has sadly degenerated; that in its infancy it achieved some noble reforms, but now it is no better than the other party; that it has become corrupt and has been prostituted from the position it held when such men as Sumner Phillips, Garrison, Greeley and their associates were the pilots, and has been turned and twisted so that at present it is the party of a class-that of wealth and monopoly.
 The uprising of workingmen all